Desperate to justify his sectarianism, jumping before he is pushed after a democratic investigation into his role as a conspiratorial witch hunter, Richard Seymour tries to make the best of his split from the Socialist Workers Party.
Richard Seymour’s political ally, John Chamberlain, the man who edits the website that offers unconditional support to convicted pedophiles, will not be entirely happy at Seymour’s splitting. I know from personal experience that he wants to foment paranoia in every fragment of the activist left, having tried to recruit me to his ‘organisation’, without leaving the organisation I was a member of at the time: Scottish Militant Labour. I explained to him that I want to bring the left together, and that will not be helped by acting as a double agent. John Chamberlain will, as ever, dismiss Richard Seymour’s decision to split publicly telling him he should have dug in his heels and created as much havok as he could.
Outside the SWP, Richard Seymour’s faction will find the only thing that bound it together was sectarian infighting, conspiratorialism, a so-called ‘feminist’ indifference to due process, natural justice and the presumption of innocence. Deprived of their ability to get their fix of any of this they are likely to turn on each other, or simply get bored with each other. They will find other shiny objects to focus on. They are dust.
But Richard Seymour doesn’t want to go down in history as a footnote who dragged out human dust from the SWP that will scatter to the winds as soon as the doors open. So he asks everyone who has resigned from the SWP since January’s conference to add their names to his list.
As if that was not ridiculous enough, Richard Seymour’s blog is now allowing people who live on the other side of the world and have not been in the party for decades to ‘resign’. Kinda pathetic, but par for the course in the wonderful world of Richard Seymour.
WORKERS UNITED 